The Glass Inheritance
When junior associate Marcus Vey is assigned the estate of a recently deceased client at the prestigious London firm of Pemberton and Hale, he expects little more than dusty files and tedious paperwork. What he finds is a glass box hidden in a safe, a list of names that never reached probate, and a death the police are content to call a suicide. As Marcus begins pulling the threads, he draws the attention of partners prepared to bury the firm's darkest secrets, and finds an unexpected ally in Gerald Pemberton, whose loyalty to the institution masks a far more personal debt. From the wood-panelled lobbies of London to the cliffside estates where old money rewrites its own history, Marcus follows a trail of forged ledgers, vanished heirs, and a bequest no one was meant to claim. But the closer he gets to the truth about the glass inheritance, the more he begins to suspect that his own name has been on someone's list all along. Now he must choose: walk away with a fortune and a future, or burn it all down before the same silence that claimed his client claims him too.